well it says pidgin needs glib2 version 2.12.12 to work. And I looked and the current version installed is 2.12.10. I have all 5 recommended repositories (packages, patches, extra, testing and unstable) enabled. And I've done all the upgrades so I should have the most recent packages available. I also did a search on http://www.linuxpackages.net/ and the required glib2 version isn't there. The most recent one offered is 2.6.0 I think.

The problem is the latest version gslapt is picking up is pidgin-2.1.0-i586-2vl58.tlz, the one I built is 1vl58, I have no idea where that other package came from. I also tested my package with a clean box and it works.